Feb. 28, 2015 ROCHESTER, Mich. - The Oakland track and field team travels to Youngstown, Ohio to compete in the 2015 Horizon League Indoor Championships held inside the Watson and Tressel Training Site (WATTS). Coverage of the event will be aired live on ESPN 3.
"The indoor season is a grind but week after week we have had really good performances. We kind of referred this season as the year of the PR because its seemed every week we had a student-athlete running, jumping or throwing a personal record," said head coach Paul Rice. "I think we are mentally and physically ready. We have done the work and now it is a matter of just executing. "We also have seen Detroit a lot this season and there is an added feeling the championships with the rivalry and Metro Series driven by Trinity Transportation. Last year we won on the men's side and lost on the women's so this year we hope to beat them on both sides."
Oakland returns defending 2014 Horizon League Event Champions Serena San Cartier , Nicholas Girodat , Chris Scott and Bryce Stroede. San Cartier claimed the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.72 while Girodat won the 60m dash at 6.94 and was named Horizon League Freshman Track Athlete of the Championship. Scott finished first in the 800m with a time of 1:52.96 while Stroede won the mile event running a time of 4:10.53.
Overall, the men's team finished in third place with 81 points while the women finished in seventh place with 39 points.
Aaron Davis enters the championships earning Horizon League Runner of the Week honors for the period of Feb. 17-23 after winning his fifth consecutive event of the season with a 60 meter dash time of 6.92 at the Hillsdale Tune-Up (Feb. 22) which is tied for best in the league with Girodat and ranks second in school history. Davis has also won 200m titles at the Jack Skoog Dual (1-16), SVSU Jet's Pizza Invite (1-31), YSU National Invitational (2-7) and GVSU Big Meet (2-14) and holds the league's second fastest time at 21.75 which he set at YSU.
San Cartier is poised to defend her title owning the league's top 60m hurdle time of 8.68.
Karli Keur also holds the top league mark in the 800m with a time of 2:14.55 while Scott and David Koponen rank second and third respectively in the league with times of 1:53.17 and 1:53.34.
Stroede also ranks second in the 3000m and 5000m with times of 8:13.09 and 14:31.17 respectively while Miranda Haas is also second in the 5000m at 17:17.91.
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